Reflections at the Intersection of American History, Religion, Politics, and Academic Life

Saturday, August 30, 2014

On Writing the History of the American Bible Society--Update #60

Want to get some context for this post? Click here.The writing continues on the ABS project. Yesterday morning I poured 2559 words into Chapter Three of the manuscript and hope to get a first draft of the chapter done by Monday. Most of what I wrote yesterday was narrative. I described a couple of really entertaining encounters between ABS agents and supposed "infidels." One of these encounters took place in the New Jersey Pine Barrens and the other one happened at a "log rolling" somewhere near Tuscaloosa, Alabama. I am often saddened by how many amazing stories and anecdotes from the ABS records are not going to make it into this book. Yesterday I had to cut several of them. Perhaps I will publish some of the stories that did not make it into the book here at the blog. Stay tuned.